Highway Patrol (1955)

Season 2

TV-G

Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.

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39 Episodes

The Search
E1
The SearchAfter an elderly couple inadvertently help a murderous bank robber slip through a police road block, a restaurant manager spots the fugitive who uses the old folks to keep from getting caught.
Kidnap Copter
E2
Kidnap CopterJerry Watts is the son of a millionaire and he's just been kidnapped and taken to an old shack high in the mountains. After a tip from a game warden brings the Highway Patrol, Jerry tries to escape to the officers, only to fall into a canyon severely injuring himself. The only way out is straight up.
Trailer Story
E3
Trailer StorySteve Talbot is a jewel thief who likes nice automobiles, and the Highway Patrol knows this. So Talbot flees capture after a job in an old junker. This gets him past the roadblocks but he soon is stranded on the side of the road. He hijacks a newly married couple pulling a trailer and Dan passes the trio through, not wanting harm to come to the civilians. But in passing the blockade, they unknowingly pick up a new rider.
Fisherman's Luck
E4
Fisherman's LuckA car that was involved in an accident is stolen and later found again, and just happens to match the description of one used in a bank holdup. Putting two and two together, Dan speculates that this was the getaway car and it's occupants must have escaped on foot, which is near a posh resort.
Magazine Writer
E5
Magazine WriterReporter Sam Dalquist has gone missing. Dan has been looking for him because a two bit hood was found dead after getting a traffic citation driving Dalquist's car. The only lead Mathews has is that Dalquist was working on an exposé about a hood named Matlock and that may be where the writer will be found...dead or alive.
Typhoid Carrier
E6
Typhoid CarrierHank Dooley's daughter has just died from typhoid fever, and Dooley is now searching for his farm hand Len Frazier who is the one who infected her, complete with rifle in hand.
Hot Rod
E7
Hot RodDan enlists the help of the leader of a local hot rod car club to assist in finding two robbers who use a souped-up car to get away from the Highway Patrol after each job.
Hot Cargo
E8
Hot CargoSeveral criminals conspire to stage highway accidents prompting truck drivers to stop and help victims only to be assaulted and have their cargoes stolen. After discovering the hijackers are being tipped off by the owner of a roadside diner favored by truckers, Chief Mathews creates a ruse to force the crime ring into action with the hopes of capturing them.
Oil Lease
E9
Oil LeaseAn Army bazooka is stolen by two men who use it to capture the payroll from an oil drilling company.
Ex Con
E10
Ex ConThe life of an ex-con is never easy, especially when cellmates show up expecting favors. Al Baldwin is a reformed criminal but suddenly has unexpected guests who hide out at his house while plotting their next crime. When that holdup goes bad, the cons hold Al's wife hostage until Dan and the Highway Patrol come to the rescue.
Motel Robbery
E11
Motel RobberyA man and two women who specialize in robbing roadside motels become increasingly confident and reckless.
Stolen Car Ring
E12
Stolen Car RingA man and two female accomplices steal expensive cars, forge registration cards, and sell the cars upstate before their status as stolen cars can be disseminated.
Escaped Mental Patient
E13
Escaped Mental PatientDan Mathews and his officers must work quickly to capture a delusional and unpredictable escapee from a mental hospital.
Armored Car
E14
Armored CarA trio of thieves threatens to murder the wife of an armored car guard in order to force him to surrender a $25,000 payroll secured inside the vehicle.
Migrant Workers
E15
Migrant WorkersInside information helps thieves rob a group of recently-paid itinerant fruit pickers, but murder results when one particularly desperate victim refuses to follow their orders.
Ranch Copter
E16
Ranch CopterA woman suspects her husband is trying to kill her. Iris: Virginia Dale. George: Douglas Henderson. Mathews: Broderick Crawford. Ted: Robert Cavendish.
Amnesia
E17
AmnesiaDan Mathews and his officers must rely upon an uncommunicative amnesiac to find a seriously injured camper.
Statute of Limitations
E18
Statute of LimitationsMathews tries to prove the guilt of three holdup men---before the statute of limitations runs out. Mathews: Broderick Crawford. Eddie: Bing Russell. Wyatt: Mike Regan.
Resident Officer
E19
Resident OfficerA Highway Patrol officer is murdered after he discovers a marijuana field while on a hunting trip.
Psycho
E20
PsychoA writer having a bad reaction to medication takes potshots at several targets, including Dan Mathews and his officers.
Counterfeit
E21
CounterfeitMathews and the Highway Patrol investigate a rash of forged payroll-check cashings affecting merchants in and around Los Angeles.
Suspected Cop
E22
Suspected CopThe distraught daughter of a deceased gemologist accuses Officer Johnson of stealing valuable uncut jewels from her late father's car.
Trojan Horse
E23
Trojan HorseTwo men conceal themselves in large crates on the back of a truck as part of a plan to get inside a manufacturing plant so they can steal a $27,000 payroll.
Female Hitchhiker
E24
Female HitchhikerA man and two female accomplices who pose as hitchhikers rob several unsuspecting male motorists, but murder results when one victim tries to fight back.
Nitro
E25
NitroA murderous hoodlum attempts to steal counterfeit currency plates that have been packed in nitroglycerin tubes for safekeeping.
Motorcycle B
E26
Motorcycle BMotorcycle-riding armed robbers elude Highway Patrol roadblocks by loading their two-wheelers into a closed truck driven by their leader.
Officer's Wife
E27
Officer's WifeBecause of his wife's fears, Patrolman Ed Wylie resigns from the force after fellow officer Jerry March is killed in the line of duty.
Stripped Cars
E28
Stripped CarsTwo brothers hijack a new-car carrier, planning to sell the cars to get cash to purchase a farm. When the driver dies from injuries sustained in the hijacking, they make a panic-stricken attempt to dispose of the evidence.
Convict's Wife
E29
Convict's WifeAn escaped convict abducts his estranged wife and forces her to help him elude the Highway Patrol.
Reformation
E30
ReformationAn ex-con wants to return money stolen in an armed robbery, but his erstwhile partner has other ideas.
Stolen Plane Copter
E31
Stolen Plane CopterTwo convicts steal an airplane to escape from prison.
Gem Robbery
E32
Gem RobberyA gemologist and his accomplice steal $300,000 in rough-cut gems from a courier, then attempt to smuggle them out of the country in a dog's collar.
Wounded
E33
WoundedTwo holdup men abduct a physician and compel him to extricate a bullet in a wooded area.
Fake Cop
E34
Fake CopOne member of a three-person holdup team impersonates a Highway Patrol officer in order to deceive robbery victims into thinking that they need not notify the Patrol themselves.
Double Cross
E35
Double CrossTreachery and murder result after a bonded bank messenger, his wife, and an accomplice steal a $20,000 payroll.
Narcotics
E36
NarcoticsThe owner of a centrally-located roadside diner is murdered so that heroin sellers can use his business as a "front" for distributing the drug to pushers.
Hired Killer
E37
Hired KillerA professional killer from Chicago comes into Dan Mathews' jurisdiction to murder the Santell brothers before they can testify against a racketeer.
Hostage Copter
E38
Hostage CopterThe Highway Patrol helicopter is ordered into action when the botched robbery of a roadside diner results in the shooting of the proprietor and the abduction of his daughter.
Rabies
E39
RabiesDan Mathews and a physician race against time to find an elusive little girl that was bitten on the cheek by a rabid dog.